Pass & Receive on the Run (15 mins)

- After they manage to control the ball at one empty goal, they should turn around without delay to attack the opposite goal and so on.

Objective:

- Score 10 goals with 10 attacks

Progression:

- use less skilled foot

- have two pairs start at the same time from opposite goals, trying to sore 10 valid goals first.

A goal is not valid if..

- the distance between the two attackers has been less than 10 yards

- the player without the ball places him- or herself in front of the ball

Coaching Points:

Why should the attackers be 10 yards away from each other? (The closer they are to each other, the easier it is for the defender to win the ball).

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Pass ball on the run toward Left or Right (15 mins)

Look Left and Pass Right:

Set-up:

Field 12x15 Yards. 4 players.

- Use cones to mark off four goals as shown in illustration

- Two players from different teams dribble the ball from diagonally opposed positions to the center of the playing area. From there each has to pass the ball on the run toward a team-mate waiting behind the goal on the right side.

- The it's receiver's turn to do the same thing.

- In 10 trials every player should be able to score 8 times.

Progression:

- Switch directions of passing

- Before actually executing the pass through the cone goal, the passer must carry out a feint or a dummy pass to the oher player at the left side.

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Reception on the Run (15 mins)

Reception on the Run

Set-up: Four players occupy the areas at two cones diametrically opposite each other.

- Player 1, dribbles out and receives visual cue from the receiver (player 2) and passes the ball along the goal-line toward the unoccupied cone 12 meters across from him or her. There the timed pass must be received and controlled on the run by player 2, who ten returns the ball, passing it along the same goal-line back toward where player 1 had been. Player 3 awaits the pass in that corner and does the same procedure as player 1, passing to player 4, who starts from the same corner as player 2.

- Player 1 runs behind player 4 to proceed from that corner and player 2 runs behind player 3 to continue from that corner.

Coaching Points: This exercises teaches players how to receive the ball from ither side while you are on the run.

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The Switch (15 mins)

The Switch.

- Player 1 passes it to player 2 who then dribbles diagonally into the position near his or her team-mate. Player 1 overlaps to avoid having two players be in the same position. Player 2 then passes it back to player 1. The ball is then carried across the goal-line to start the same process or combination of moves going in the opposite direction.

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Beating the Defender (15 mins)

Beating the Defender

Set-up: four players with a ball each

- Each player dribbles their ball toward the center cone and drags the ball or performs a move to right of the cone. They repeat the same thing on the next cone, before dribbling across the goal line.

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Modifying the Rules (15 mins)

Modifying the Rules:

1. Every team performs 10 attacks without time limits.

Training objectives: to understand what to do in attack as well as in defence

2. Two attacker have 90 seconds to attack alternately both goals.

Training objective:

3. The right attacker may execute only one pass to the left or dribble past the defender after a fake pass

Training Objective: to be able to overcome the defender with a single action (a pass or a fake with or without a fake pass)

4. The left attacker may choose between a pass to the right or a fake.

Training Objective: to know the most efficient way to resolve the 2v1 situation.

5. A goal is considered valid only when the last control of the ball was excuted on the run.

Training objective: to receive and control the ball on the run.

6. Every team uses 15 seconds for attacking both goals as often as possible with a recovery of one minute before a new attempt is launched. Every team has four attempts to score a maximum number of goals.

Training objective: to launch quick attacks and commit few mistakes when playing under pressure

7. Both attackers must also use their less-skillful foot

Training objective: to stimulate play with the less-skillfull foot

8. During the development of the attacks, both forwards must switch positions

Training objective: to use the switch systematically

9. Both defenders may tackle in any part of the playing area. The attackers start from the center and may score in either goal area. Attackers and defenders switch functions after 10 attacks

Training objective: to create intentional 2v1 situation

10. Each team attacks and defends two 1 meter-wide cone goals. To score, a player must control the ball inside one of the opponent's two goals, set 12 meters away from each other.

Training objective: to ascertain the width in attack

By asking the attackers to score with a shot into a regular goal after they have learned to control the ball in the widely set goal areas, they will gain additional experience in the conclusion of their attacks.